Blocked!

Monday, September 29th, 2008

If you enjoy playing games on your iPhone/iPod touch, a personal recommendation is a game called “Blocked.” It is not free, but well worth the $0.99 (~Rs. 45) you will pay for it.
I have been playing this game for almost a month now (can’t say the same for some of the more expensive games [...]

And so it begins…

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, and just 3 days to reach that number with the new 3G version.
In a press release Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is happy to announce these figures and adds “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” and “…the new iPhone 3G is clearly off [...]

Mac basics for Windows users: Menus

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I bought my first Mac a few months ago. Having been a dyed-in-wool Windows user (and a former Microsoft employee) meant that I was apprehensive about my ability to be productive with Mac OS. The fact that Macs can now run Windows (both natively under Boot Camp and virtualized), made the decision easy - I [...]

A short guide to backing-up and playing your DVD movie collection on the Mac

Monday, June 30th, 2008

For the sake of simplicity, I’ll make two assumptions here.
1.) You have a movie DVD which is region free or whose region matches with the region of your drive. Most Macs come with Matsushita DVD drives that use RPC-2 protection. RPC-2 physically restricts access to key areas of the disc if there is a mismatch [...]

Top 5 free apps that should come pre-installed on your Mac

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

1. VLC media player | Screenshot
The Swiss army knife of media players.
The default media player which comes with OSX is Quicktime Player and it plays, well, just Quicktime. For your vast media collection including Mpeg, DivX, DV, WMV, MKV etc. VLC is the answer. You can control VLC with the Apple remote so if you [...]